Introduction A UX/UI designer can use game mechanics to increase a user’s level of engagement with an app. As a user of software apps, you’ve no doubt engaged with some type of game mechanic, such as a leaderboard, a progress bar, or a points-scoring system. When you submit an assignment to your learning management system,… Read More Gamification
SHAPE is an element of art. A shape can be geometric or organic. Its edges can be precise or amorphous. A shape can be a figure or the negative space around a figure. In this exercise, you will use scale, balance, space, contrast, and cropping to create a series of compositions. Exercise 1: Black Squares… Read More Shape Problems
ART220 DESIGN AND COLOR KEYWORDS: TEXTURE, PATTERN, RHYTHM PATTERNS can create visual textures. A pattern is created through the repetition of marks. The marks can be arranged in a variety of different configurations. LEARNING OBJECTIVES LEARNING MATERIALS AND RESOURCES EXERCISE: ORIGINAL PATTERN Note: You can complete this exercise using either analog/traditional or digital processes or… Read More Designer Pattern
Morph one shape into another. Artists to Research Studio sessions: 2 Objectives Instructions
Research “The glance is the new currency of the age and we need to know how to design for it.” Nadine Chahine, type director and legibility expert at Monotype StudioX Objective Design an interface that employs a typeface (style, weight, width, and line space) that is easy to read. Instructions
Designing in Adobe XD When you are ready to submit work for review and grading, XD makes it easy to do so. Instructions When I click on the link, a grid view of all of the artboards in the project is shown. Here’s what it looks like: As you can see in this student’s project,… Read More Sharing Your Work for Review
Research User Interviews Personas Empathy Maps User Journeys Header Image
Introduction A well-designed website menu is simple and memorable. Users quickly grasp its basic organization and feel a sense of satisfaction and confidence as they use it to navigate the site. Designing a good website menu requires an understanding of human behavior and visual communication design. There are a number of simple laws of UX/UI… Read More Navigation and Menu Organization in UX/UI
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_photography_technology Camera Obscura The oldest surviving camera photograph, by Nicéphore Niépce, 1826 or 1827[1] View of the Boulevard du Temple, first photograph including a person (on pavement at lower left), by Daguerre, 1838 An 1877 photographic color print on paper by Louis Ducos du Hauron. The irregular edges of the superimposed cyan, red and yellow… Read More Photography
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